[Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

[Thomas Dalton]

Sounds interesting. It is certainly true that wikinews was never as
successful as we had hoped. Perhaps this new project will manage more. Good
luck!
On Sep 12, 2011 9:51 PM, "Tempodivalse" <r2d2.strauss at verizon.net> wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I thought the Wikimedia community should know that a large portion of
WIkinews' contributor base has forked into its own project (
http://theopenglobe.org) after becoming deeply dissatisfied with Wikinews.
The new wiki has finished its creation stage and is about ready to publish
news articles.
>
> At least nine users have pledged to support this fork, and several others
(including non-WN Wikimedians) are interested - more than there are active
remaining Wikinews contributors.
>
> -Tempodivalse
>
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